Microsoft is integrating Python into its Excel app. A public preview is available for Microsoft 365 subscribers now and all the Python code runs on the Microsoft Cloud.

Microsoft As a secure operation, Microsoft says Python in Excel runs on the Microsoft Cloud with enterprise-level security within the Microsoft 365 experience. This means that the code is executed ...

creates the built-in function chr and maps the function to the list of integers [119, 105, 110, 51, 50]. Then the line combines it into a string that ultimately creates 'win32'.

A software security engineer has identified 12 Python libraries uploaded on the official Python Package Index (PyPI) that contained malicious code.

Placing malicious code in 'setup.py,' however, will allow malware to be installed and unnoticed even if the package, or Python itself, is not used at all.

Well, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella would apparently disagree. In a fireside chat with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at Llamacon, Nadella said, "I'd say maybe 20 to 30 percent of the code that is inside ...